10.13.2018 Sports Football: After retiring Briggs’ 22, Waves flop Dashan Briggs had that smile. It was one of the more memorable features that his former Riverhead football coaches recalled about him. Head coach Leif Shay said that when...
01.09.2018 Sports Wrestling: Matyka dominates, Riverhead ekes out win Not that one could tell, because there were no outward signs of it, but Mark Matyka wasn’t feeling his best before Tuesday’s Suffolk County League III wrestling match at...
10.12.2017 News Over 50 years after Calverton plane crash, a son searches for answers On Feb. 6, 1964, a C-54 Navy cargo plane carrying aircraft equipment and eight men set off from Kirtland Air Force base in New Mexico, headed for the East...
09.16.2017 Sports Football: Centereach RB runs through Waves As difficult as Saturday’s high school football game was for Riverhead, it was considerably harder for Alec Kiernan. And Kiernan played for Centereach, which breezed to victory.
10.29.2016 Sports Football: Riverhead’s emergency QB gets the call in season-ending loss Three hours before kickoff time on Saturday, Harrison Downs received the word. Riverhead High School football coach Leif Shay pulled Downs aside and told him that he was the...
02.04.2016 Sports Girls Basketball: Senior Night is a Dunn deal for Riverhead One play told Dave Spinella all he needed to know. It was five years ago when the coach saw Sam Dunn dive into the bleachers during a summer league...
02.04.2016 Sports Boys Basketball: OT loss leaves Blue Waves needing to win finale The Riverhead Blue Waves walked silently from the locker room to their bus outside of Centereach High School on Thursday night. Who could have blamed them?
01.12.2016 Sports Boys Basketball: Blue Waves return to their winning ways The Riverhead Blue Waves had started the high school boys basketball season so promisingly, with four wins from as many games. Then they hit some road bumps. Five of...